They won't be leapfrogging 'us'.

They'll be leapfrogging some privately owned, for-profit business.

Frankly, I don't give two shits about that, and I fail to see why anyone who doesn't own one of them should give one.

If they want me to have skin in the game, they should share either the profits, or the models. Until they do, it's not 'us', it's 'them'.